My Original Scrapbook Journals

I thought today I would show you pages from my first two scrapbook "journals".  The first was simply a scrapbook of favorite magazine photos and short paragraph articles.

I used to call this scrapbook my Happy Place for when I was down, I could (and still do) look through it and feel joy.  It didn't take any time at all to keep this up, I just cut favorite magazine images and taped them to the scrapbook pages.

The second scrapbook journal was more of a journal and less a scrapbook.  It was the first one I used a sketch book to assemble instead of a scrapbook. In it, I wrote recipes, made lists of things to do, and it contained my garden journal for the first years of the raised bed gardens. 

Both are to give you ideas and to share that to have a good scrapbook journal, it does not have to be embellished.  Although these last few years, it has been fun to do so.  It gives me an excuse to collect washi tape.  ;)

First to answer a couple questions from last week's Comments:

I found that glue and paste did not work well for the scrapbook or scrapbook journals because after awhile, some of the paste stopped working.  I use double sided tape, both regular double sided tape from the office supply store and double sided tape made for paper art.  Double sided tape actually made for paper art now comes in many shapes and sizes and makes adhering to paper very easy.

The fonts that look like they were typed on an old typewriter were on my husband's old computer, I think in Microsoft Office Word.  I haven't checked if they are on the newer computer but I will soon.

I have seen junk journals on one of the programs on Create TV.  They looked like they would be fun and creative.  One episode showed various kinds of junk journals, including one that was put together from items on vacation.

So here are photos of the first two scrapbooks, as I wrote you will see that the first scrapbook was not used as a journal and the second was used as a journal but not meant to be very artistic.  Sorry for the glare, it is cloudy outside so I had to take photos under the florescent light in the kitchen.

Scrapbook Journal Show & Tell

The decoupage cover of my current scrapbook journal

I'm reviewing less books for awhile (on purpose) so I'm thinking there will be time to work on my scrapbook journaling again.  I have done a form of scrapbook journaling for a very long time but after seeing what Jewels did with her journals (gosh, nine years ago perhaps?), it took my own to a new level.

It is very easy for me to pick up scrapbook journaling again, I have all the materials needed including issues of favorite magazines and cut out images (a lot from vintage Victoria) collected through many years. 

So I thought today I would share some pages I have completed in the past.  I used to create a page on two sides of the paper but it doesn't work very well with bonded scrapbooks.  I will go back to a spiral scrapbook next time.

Thus was the telling and here is the showing. These were all created a couple years ago.  It is time to get back to them...

I started doing more layering in the "newer" journal.

I also started using washi tape as art.

I typed this up when I needed to write down good things about February.

Sometimes I add favorite quotes.

This page included my To Do list for the month.

I have terrible handwriting but sometimes I write out a quote to make it personal.

These pages contain so many different items that put together make Art.

I had pretty washi tape and stickers to use here.

I wanted to make the plain black sketchbook (aka: scrapbook journal) look pretty when it was just sitting on my desk so I made a cover using a decoupage of wrapping paper, vintage birthday cards purchased at Brimfield on a trip with my daughter, and various sayings as well as words.  I quite like it.

My plan is to create a couple pages a week through the summer.  Hopefully.